Feminism
- Middle Class women
- Rebel against “separate spheres,”
- Idea that men are the breadwinners, the woman says home with the children
- Get education and jobs
- Shopping by catalogue and department store
- Elite women’s colleges
- By 1900, 1/3 of clerical jobs filled by women
- Social and some economic independence
- Bicycle and book clubs
- Dance halls
- More premarital sex
- Rebel against “separate spheres,”
- Feminism
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Called for release of women form domestic chores
- Margaret Sanger, The Woman Rebel
- About birth control— allows women to control their body
- Emma Goldman
- Denounced marriage as prostitution
- Endorsed the idea of “free love,” love w/o contracts of marriage
- Alice Paul
- Founded National Women’s Party for suffrage
- Greenwich Village, in Manhattan
- Crystal Eastman, Heterodoxy, a feminist group
- Feminist challenge: "how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity."
- Vice Commissions
- Crack down on prostitution, drunkenness, pornography
- Campaign for prohibition, regulation of movie theaters
- Mann Act, 1910
- Made transportation of women across state lines for immoral purpose illegal
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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